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Part 1: Prelude Part 2: Moving Towards Part 3: Seamless Part 4: Birthday Gift Part 5: Sacrifice In order to make my personal decision a public act, to honor the transformation I had undertaken, to admit the participation of the people in my life, I chose to give up my given name and claim a…

Part 1: Prelude Part 2: Moving Towards Part 3: Seamless Part 4: Unreturnable Gift [penultimate in a series exploring events that led up to my transition announcement.] Two weeks after I had inadvertently “gone full-time”, I found myself in an awkward situation. I was stuck in gender limbo, the great wide territory between male and…

Part 1: Prelude Part 2: Moving Towards Part 3: Seamless My birthday was January 30th. As a kind of gift to myself, I wore all women’s clothes to work for the first time. A pair of simple black boots, jeans, a sweater, accompanied by two rings, small but visible hoop earrings, and just a bit…

Part 1: Prelude – Ritual Part 2: Moving Towards After beginning HRT, I started a gradual process of coming out as trans. I mindfully changed my appearance slowly. I would occasionally wear women’s jeans while out. Sometimes I’d wear just a bit of makeup to work. I would find opportunities to tell friends, family members,…

Part 1: On “Going Full-Time” – Prelude: Ritual [Special Note: in the prelude to this entry (link above), I discussed how transition is a space particularly conducive to ritual. I recognize that this idea is largely predicated on the assumption that such a space functions as binary. It’s only in a society that both reinforces…

[I began a post on the topic of going “full-time”. Stricken by logorrhea, I think it best to break it up into a few parts. Stay tuned for more.] I like ritual. Fundamentally, ritual concretizes the abstract, gathers the amorphous into form, even if only temporarily, and helps render the invisible visible. Religion offers grand, obvious…